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Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
The World in Time
This week on the podcast, Donovan Hohn speaks with Francine Prose, author of 1974: A Personal History. More
Roundtable
Miscellany
As a result of technological advances and shortages of enslaved workers, water power became used more widely in the Roman Empire around the late third century; the earliest known depiction of a water-powered stone sawmill was produced around this time in Hierapolis. Later, in 371, the poet Ausonius wrote an ode to the Moselle River: “He turns his millstones in furious revolutions and drives the shrieking saws through smooth blocks of marble.”
The brightest light burns the quickest.
—Olive Beatrice Muir, 1900More EnergyGo to Issue Page >